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Featured Recording:
Rehearsal Tapes

These pieces were performed live in rehearsal by the same lineup heard on Out There.
Featuring drummer Jeremy Rexford currently playing with Pollo del Mar, who preserved these recordings for 20 years. Thanks Jeremy!

Featured songs:
These are the only known recordings of these songs.
Oral Astrology
4:00
Play lo-fi Download mp3 lo-fi (470 KB) Lyrics
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Primal Beat
4:43
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more mp3s from the rehearsal sessions
Why Are You Asking?
3:09
Play lo-fi Download mp3 lo-fi (370 KB) Lyrics
Play hi-fi Download mp3 hi-fi (2.88 MB)
Are You In Love?
3:10
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Play hi-fi Download mp3 hi-fi (2.41 MB)
Clone Butt
4:28
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Play hi-fi Download mp3 hi-fi (4.09 MB)
Bitter Taste
5:10
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Play hi-fi Download mp3 hi-fi (4.73 MB)
Doughnut Shop Dream
2:27
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Derelict In My Doorway
2:24
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Play hi-fi Download mp3 hi-fi (2.21 MB)
Dream A Lot
2:59
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Hydrophobia /
Bobbing for Apples

4:04
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Killer Purses
(First half only)
1:26
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Play hi-fi Download mp3 hi-fi (1.32 MB)
Waiting for the Bomb to Go Off
4:06
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Smart Woman
2:27
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Prelude
3:44
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Primal Beat
(alternate take)
5:09
Play lo-fi Download mp3 lo-fi (606 KB) Lyrics
Play hi-fi Download mp3 hi-fi (4.72 MB)
The play links use pseudo-streaming. Lo-fi works better for slow Internet connections.

These sessions also produced recordings of the following cover songs:
  • Town Without Pity, originally by Gene Pitney
  • Come Together, origianlly by The Beatles
  • Song For My Father, origianlly by Horace Silver
  • All Blues, originally by Miles Davis
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These recordings may be heard at automaticpilot.dmusic.com which hosts cover recordings under license arrangements with ASCAP and BMI.

Personnel:

  • Matthew McQueen, lead vocal
  • Tony Kramedas, vocal
  • Tom Gschwind, violin, vocal
  • John Selby, alto saxophone
  • Karl Brown, piano, electric piano, vocal
  • Dave Moseley, bass guitar
  • Jeremy Rexford, drums

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